They haven't been phones for like ever. Put one single piece of
non-telephone-call-related software on a device that was built to make
phone calls, and it's not a telephone any more. Maybe putting a clock on
a telephone is going a little overboard in that judgment because it's
common to want to know how long one has been on a call, so maybe, but if
it doesn't have anything to do with the device's main designed function,
ya can't call that device by its generic name any more. If you add a
recipe-finder to a refrigerator or a stove, is it still just a
refrigerator or a stove any more? Not in my unhumble. That's why it is
now common to refer to these things as mobile devices that once did
little, if anything, more than make telephone calls.
On 10/7/2024 9:01 AM, 'Jason J.G. White' via MacVisionaries wrote:
On 7/10/24 02:15, MacVisionaries wrote:
Younger people may not know this but, once upon a time, the primary
purpose of a mobile phone was to actually make a phone call using a
dial pad (smile).
An interviewee on a podcast insightfully suggested that they aren't
"phones" anymore, they're actually "pocket computers".
I well remember mobile phones that were exactly what the term means,
but, as you acknowledge, they aren't common anymore.
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